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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...
5) Cedar Rapids
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old man (Bolger) wins the lottery and decides to treat the city to a Fourth of July fireworks display. However, the saloon owner is not about to let a night of fireworks take place since it would draw away his customers. His ruthlessness backfires on him when the Walnut Grove expatriots, most of them his employees, decide they've had enough of city life and announce their intentions to return to their former community.
9) Hoot
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Roy Eberhardt is the only child in a family that is constantly relocating for his father's work. At 14, he's once again the new kid, this time in the tiny Florida beach town of Coconut Cove. Predictably, a bully nicknames him "Cowgirl" and proceeds to torture him. Unpredictably, a barefoot blonde boy who runs alongside the school bus every morning fascinates him. Tough-as-nails girl jock Beatrice befriends Roy, helps with the bully, and is revealed...
10) Our town
Language
English
Description
The classic film based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a small New England town fraught with human drama, family conflict, marriage, life and death.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel is part of an eccentric family. Rachel's father, Norman, is a dairy farmer who dreams of being an orchestra conductor. Norman makes a surprise announcement that he's putting together a classical concert. Everyone must wait to see if this family can win over the townspeople or end up as the town's laughingstock.
12) Our town
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Life in a small New Hampshire community during the early years of the 20th century.
16) Fresh horses
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Passion knows no limits for Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy in the provocative romantic drama, Fresh Horses. A compelling tale of love and awakening set against the dual backdrop of city and country in the American heartland.
18) Plainsong
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 51
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A heartbroken husband has been abandoned by his wife with two boys to raise. His sympathetic colleague cares for her ailing father. A pregnant high school girl is thrown out of her house with nowhere to go. A couple of bachelors set in their ways face a life-altering challenge. Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven. With courage and tenacity, they redefine their lives, ease...
Pub. Date
2000-2004.
Language
English
Description
"Now you can sit back and chill out with over 6 hours of Hey Arnold! captured on four episode-packed discs. It's the complete collection of every show from Season 5 of this beloved hit, including the ones where Arnold and Harold get stuck in a tree...Timberly falls for Arnold...Big Bob is brainwashed...Phoebe passes gas onstage...and lots more!"--from Amazon.
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